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Bruce Beresford

"Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances."

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Donna Grant

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

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Donna Grant

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

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Donna Grant

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

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Donna Grant

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

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Donna Grant

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

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Donna Grant

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

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Donna Grant

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

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Donna Grant

"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

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Bruce Beresford
"In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film."

Music

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Bruce Beresford
"In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films."

Finance

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Bruce Beresford
"It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created."

Art

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Bruce Beresford
"With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life."

Life

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Bruce Beresford
"I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room."

Experience

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Bruce Beresford
"Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined."

Film

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Bruce Beresford
"Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico."

Location

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Bruce Beresford
"There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that."

Movies

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Bruce Beresford
"In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent."

Movies

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Bruce Beresford
"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."

Opera

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